How to Fully Fund Our Communities
Communities across the country are organizing to redirect resources toward meeting community needs and achieving genuine and lasting safety for all of us.
Many are targeting police, prosecutor, jail and prison budgets that are
There has been growing recognition over the last decade of the destructive role that big banks have played in our society, harming our communities and our planet. There is wider awareness now of the ways that big banks worsened racial economic inequality, by both redlining certain neighborhoods, preventing families of color from buying homes, and also targeting those same neighborhoods for high-cost predatory loans that stripped homeowners of their wealth.
21ST CENTURY POLICING:
The Rise and Reach of Surveillance Technology
Sitting at the intersection of criminalization and capitalism, the use of emerging surveillance technology has become increasingly popular among police departments in the United States over the last few decades.
How Our State and Local Governments Can Save More Than $160 Billion a Year by Cutting Interest Payments to Investors | by Saqib Bhatti and Brittany Alston | SEP 2020
How Wall Street Profits from Police Violence
June 2018 | Report by Alyxandra Goodwin, Whitney Shepard, and Carrie Sloan
Local Case Studies:
Chicago
Cleveland
Lake County, Indiana
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